'''Unix''' or '''UNIX''' is a general-purpose multi-user [[operating system]] developed mostly by [[Ken Thompson]] and [[Dennis Ritchie]] during 1969 at [[Bell Labs]]. About one year later during the early 1970s UNIX was unveiled to the general public. The original goal as it is today was to create a stable, secure, and powerful operating system that is portable to many different hardware platforms.

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Today UNIX has evolved into three main categories which all flavors of UNIX derive from: [[BSD]] (Berkley Software Distribution), [[System V]] Release 4, and hybrid. Some of the most poplar flavors of UNIX are: [[IBM]]’s [[AIX]], [[Sun Microsystems]]' [[Solaris]], [[SGI]]’s [[IRIX]], [[Linux]], [[OpenBSD]], and [[FreeBSD]].

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== External Links ==

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* [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Unix_history-simple.png Wikipedia: Time Line of UNIX]